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50 J. Legal Educ. 306 (2000)
Andrea's Adventures in Law Review Land

handle is hein.journals/jled50 and id is 316 raw text is: Andrea's Adventures in Law Review Land Robert E. Rains What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare, Romeo andjuliet InJune of 1998, while most tenured professors-at least those with summer stipends--were, no doubt, off somewhere thinking great thoughts, I found myself undertaking the arduous duty of teaching summer school. In Florence, Italy. Of course, I didn't have to teach all fourteen sessions all by myself; Italy has modern laws protecting the honest laborer, just as we do. No, indeed. Learned Italian judges, professors, and practicing attorneys all pitched in to help eager young American law students pick up a few extra credits after having persuaded their parents of the many benefits of a multicultural experience. One particularly enthusiastic attorney from Rome, Andrea Russo, in the mistaken belief that our students might appreciate extra reading, brought two detailed handouts explaining recent changes in the Italian system of interna- tional private law in the domestic relations area. As, probably, the only recipi- ent who actually read the handouts, I was genuinely impressed. I suggested to Andrea that I could take the two readings, merge them together, and produce a publishable article for an American law review, and he agreed. Oh, didn't I mention that Andrea is a typical male name in Italy? But you knew that, of course. Indeed, I often amuse myself during my sojourns in Italy by casually mentioning my (American) wife, Andrea, and watching for reactions. So, we've all been in this situation: we come home from a trip, with promises made and great aspirations, only to find that the mundane demands of everyday life drag us down so that we are not the superhero action figures we thought, but just ordinary mortals suffering from the classic lawyer anticompulsion: procrastination. Which is, I know, a fancy excuse for admit- ting that, well, I didn't get Andrea's (the Roman lawyer's, not my wife's) article rewritten until mid-November 1998. And, although I put the best face on it and sent it out to ten or twelve law reviews, I knew we were toast. Not only Robert E. Rains (rerl0@psu.edu) is a professor at the Dickinson School of Law, Penn- sylvania State University. Journal of Legal Education, Volume 50, Number 2, (June 2000)

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